The stories my family tells me of their home forms my understanding of my identity as a second-generation immigrant of the Hong Kong diaspora. My work pursues the dissection of familial relationship through the notions of suburban environments. The materials used bridges traditional art with renovation, reflecting the parallels of my practice with my dad's, presenting a drop cloth artwork on the wall to claim the space it was designed to serve. Inspired by the commonality of wood in homes, the repetitive process takes on storytelling characteristics, a pattern made from prior knowledge that is blurred and overlapped, imitated, created intuitively, and ultimately unreal.

Adora Lau

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Adora Lau is a second-generation Chinese immigrant based in Whitchurch-Stouffville, Canada. Her work is a meditative exploration of her personal relationship with loss, and the limited ties that connect with her homeland of Hong Kong. Her practice uses a range of acrylic, watercolour, and charcoal medium, often through labour intensive processes. The artworks she creates are forms of letting go, to evoke senses of finality, nostalgia, and tranquility that follows acceptance.